Building the project and gathering resources
Let's create our new project now. Create a new project and call it Note to self. Leave the other settings at their default values, including choosing a blank activity.
Downloading the images
Open a web browser and visit the Android developer website, https://www.google.com/design/icons/index.html.
We want to download four icon sets, which are listed as follows:
- An add icon that we will add to the action bar later in this chapter
- An item that looks like a light bulb that we will use for an icon to represent an idea
- An exclamation mark icon that we will use to represent important notes
- A blank checkbox icon that we will use to represent something that the user needs to do
We saw all these icons when we looked ...
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